• ●Inaugurated 5 September 2026 by Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Manohar Lal; Minister of State Tokhan Sahu and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav also present.
• ●New stretch, Phase-I (Reach-II): about 11 km, 11 stations, Super Corridor-3 to Malviya Nagar Chauraha, estimated cost Rs 2,850 crore.
• ●Network after the opening: 16 operational stations, about 17 km, cumulative cost about Rs 4,370 crore.
• ●Executing agency: Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MPMRCL); the nodal ministry is the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, not the Ministry of Railways.
• ●Indore Metro is being built as the Yellow Line, a ring corridor planned at about 33.5 km with 29 stations (23 elevated, 6 underground); its first commercial section of roughly 6 km opened on 31 May 2025.
• ●Metro Rail Policy 2017, approved by the Union Cabinet in August 2017, makes private participation compulsory for any metro project seeking central assistance, offers three funding routes (PPP with Viability Gap Funding, a 10 per cent lump-sum central grant, or 50:50 central-state equity), and requires last-mile planning for a 5 km catchment on either side of stations.
• ●Governing laws: the Metro Railways (Construction of Works) Act, 1978 and the Metro Railways (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002, the latter extended beyond Delhi to other metropolitan cities by a 2009 amendment.
• ●Indore also topped the Super Swachh League category of Swachh Survekshan 2024-25, announced on 17 July 2025, its eighth successive cleanest-city finish.

Under India's Metro Rail Policy, 2017, which condition must a metro rail project satisfy to be eligible for central financial assistance?